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Miscellany Poems, containing a new Translation of Virgil's Eclogues, Ovid's Love Elegies, Odes of Horace, &c.

The Elegies in this collection, were translated by Creech, Earl of Rochester, Sedley, and Sir Carr Scrope.

The History of Love, a Collection of select Fables from Ovid's Metamorphoses, by Chas. Hopkins, 8vo. Lond. 1695.

Ovid's Art of Love, Book ii. Translated into English Verse, by Thos. Yalden, D. D. in the third and fourth vols. of Tonson's Miscellanies.

Elegy on the Death of Tibullus, from Ovid, translated into English Verse, by Geo. Stepney, Esq. Printed in the Minor Poets, published by W. Tonson, 2 vols. in 12mo.

Ovid Travestie, a Burlesque upon Ovid's Epistles, by Alex. Radcliffe, 8vo. Lond. 1705. A Translation of the fifth Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis, by Arthur Maynwaring, Esq.

Ovid's Art of Love, in three Books. Translated by W. Dryden, Congreve, &c. together with the Remedy of Love: and other Pieces from Chaucer and Hopkins, 8vo. Lond. 1712, with Cuts, 8vo. Lond. 1725. Often reprinted in 12mo.

The Art of Love, in imitation of Ovid De Arte Amandi, with the Life of Ovid, by Dr. Wm. King, 8vo. Lond. 1714. This work is divided into fourteen Books, most of them ending with some remarkable fable and interesting novel.

Sappho to Phaon, translated by Elijah Fenton, in his poetical Works, 8vo. Lond. 1717. The fifth Elegy of the first Book of Ovid, Paris to Helen, Acontius to Cydippe-translated from Ovid's Epistles into English Verse, by Rich. Duke, M. A. in his Poems, annexed to those of Roscommon, 8vo. Lond. 1717.

Ovid's Metamorphosis, in fifteen Books, translated by the most eminent Hands, adorned with Sculptures, fol. Lond. 1717. Reprinted in 2 vols. 12mo. 1717, 1720, 1724, 1727, 1733, 1736, 1751, 1773, &c. The translators were certainly the most eminent hands, for they were the following: Dryden, Addison, Congreve, Nich. Rowe, Gay, Ambrose Phillips, Croxall, Sewell, and Garth. By the latter an excellent preface is prefixed, giving a general idea of the work, the uses to which it may be applied, and how the poem may be read to most profit.

For various translations from Ovid's Metamorphosis, see Mr. Dryden's Fables, ancient and modern, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer.

For select translations from the second, third, and fourth books of the Metamorphosis, see Mr. Addison's works, 4to. Lond. 1721, vol. i.

Helen to Paris, from Ovid, translated by the Earl of Mulgrave, and Mr. Dryden, in the

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works of John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, &c. 4to. Lond. 1723, 2 vols.

Acontius to Cydippe, and the Story of Arethusa, from the fifth Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis, by Mr. Walter Harte, in his Poems, 8vo. Lond. 1727.

Select Epistles from Ovid, Sappho to Phaon, Oenone to Paris, Paris to Helen, Penelope to Ulysses, Ariadne to Theseus, Dido to Æneas, Leander to Hero, Laodamia to Protesilaus'; translated into English Verse, by Mr. Wm. Pattison, in his Poems, 8vo. Lond. 1728.

Ovid's Tristia in Latin and English, by John Stirling, 8vo. Lond. 1728, 1736, 1752.

Ovid's Metamorphosis in Latin and English, translated by the most eminent Hands, with historical Explanations of the Fables by the Abbé Banier. Adorned with Sculptures, by Picart, and other able Masters; fol. 2 vols. Amsterdam, 1732.,

Ovid's Metamorphosis, Latin and English, the English as literal as possible, by John Clarke, 8vo. Lond. 1735. Often reprinted.

Ajax's Speech to the Grecian Knights, from Ovid's Metamorphosis, Book xiii. by Rob. Forbes, 8vo. Aberdeen, 1742.

Ovid's Epistles, translated into English Prose, with the Latin Text and English Notes, 8vo. Lond. for Joseph Davidson, 1746, 1767.

Ovid's Art of Love, paraphrased and adapted to the present State; with Notes, by Henry Fielding, 8vo. Lond. 1747.

Ovid's Metamorphosis, translated into English Prose, with the Latin Text and English Notes, 8vo. Lond. for Joseph Davidson, 1748, 1759, and 1797. The translation in the main is very good, and the notes very useful.

Ovid's Fasti; or the Romans Sacred Calendar. Translated into English Verse, with Notes, by Wm. Massey, Master of a Boarding-School, at Wandsworth, 8vo. Lond. 1757. " An unharmonious versification-as to the notes, some of them are useful, but most of them puerile, and insignificant." Month. Rev.

Dido to Æneas, from Ovid, by Miss Eliz. Keene, 4to. Lond. 1758.

Ovid's Epistles, translated into English Verse, with critical Essays, and Notes, by S. Barrett, A. M. "The less that is said about this work, and the sooner it is forgotten, the better." Month. Rev.

Ovid's Metamorphosis epitomized in an English poetical Style, for the Use and Entertainment of the Ladies of Great Britain, 12mo. Lond. 1761. A very indifferent performance.

A new Translation of the second Book of Ovid's Metamorphosis, by Wm. Green, M. D. Liverpool, 12mo. 1783.

Ovid's Heroids; or Epistles from the Heroines of Antiquity. Translated into English

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Verse, by James Ewen, 8vo. Lond. 1787. A poor performance.

Enone to Paris; an Epistle of Ovid: to which is added, an Elegy of Shenstone, translated into Latin Elegiac Verse, 8vo. Lond. 1790.

Poems, containing the Goldfinch, and a translation of Ovid's Epistle of Penelope to Ulysses, by a Student of Lincoln's Inn, 4to. Lond. 1796.

Translations of Select Pieces from the different works of Ovid have been published from time to time, in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1734, 1748, &c. In the Town and Country Magazine, 1769, 1770, 1792. As also in the Works of Jabez Hughes-Gay, -Prior-PopeCongreve-Grainger-Rogers, and others.

Leander and Hero, translated from the Heroic Epistles of Ovid. With other Poems, original and translated, 8vo. Lond. 1800. The Leander and Hero is an harmonious and spirited version.

Ovid's Art of Love and Amours, 12mo Plates, 1804.

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